In the beginning, it seemed like you needed one key inventor/genius player on a team to make a great game. It had to be someone's child. That's what would make great games. Nowadays, people know how to manage a team and have more experience. I think that this would lead the way to great games being made without the need of one star player. A solid team with mediocre people can make a great game.
That's a major result of the rising complexity of the technology. Back in the 1980s, one geek could stay up all night and crank out an Atari 2600 game in raw machine code. Later, David Crane and a few others could produce the 1980s "Ghostbusters" PC game, with still more people to port his game design to the other PCs and consoles. Nowadays in the world of commercial game design, even getting a concept off the drawing board and into production requires legions of artists, programmers, musicians, sound designers, directors, producers, voice actors, motion actors, and additional people whose job it is to help all these people communicate with each other. If you asked Carmack or anyone else to go home with a gameplay concept, and come back in a week with a fully-coded XBox game, you'd receive a blank stare in return.
These days we do have a few major players like Hideo Kojima or Shigeru Miyamoto, but they are no longer able to be the jack-of-all-trades their predecessors were. They are like film producers or directors, with the talent to see a creative vision through and help an entire team realize it.
Also, when seeking a replacement PS2, at many chain stores nowadays you can sacrifice a couple of trade-in items to knock the price of a new one down to the same price as a used one, and enjoy a fresh warranty and that new-console smell.
I wonder if this is just another impress-the-voters measure passed to make the old white men in suits look good, which will get quietly struck down as unconstitutional when it ever actually comes into play in court.
Has it really been 13 years? Cripes, I'm getting old. Give it a few more years' worth of degenerative amnesia and I'll be looking for this strip on budget desk calendars in the mall bookstore.
Many thanks and best wishes, David Farley. Can't wait to see what you do next!
Who wants to start listing prior art? I don't know offhand, what sort of messaging capabilities existed in XBand, The Sierra Network, AOL, countless BBSes and BBS doors, MUDs, the old UNIX mainframe games, etc.?
I wish I could believe that, but as history has shown us time and again, marketing types tend not to be all that clear on the meaning of the word "bad."
Is stuff like this news? If so, I could go blog about how Disney could buy McDonalds, or how Toyota plans on purchasing Vivid Video.
Even if this were a serious issue, which it isn't, I somehow don't see Japan's pride and joy Nintendo selling to an American company for anything, even if it is Apple.
Thanks to MySpace, the NSA now knows that there are far more 18-year-old bisexual cheerleaders named Tiffany out there than anyone ever realized, there is a very good reason so many musicians never get record deals, and everyone in the entire world is in your extended social network (especially that creepy mutant Tom.)
This is just what I've been hoping for! Thank you, Intel, for addressing my needs as a consumer and forcing AMD to drop the prices on those Athlon 64s I love so very very much.
This is the company that has made a name for itself by removing right-wing blogs for "hate speech" from its index.
Google didn't remove anything from its index. That whole controversy is about what qualifies news sources used by the Google News aggregator. Google News has nothing to do with Google's index. Google News is a seperate sevice from Google's web search, Gmail, Orkut, and all the other services under the Google brand.
The point isn't to just get the laptop (although I'm going to enjoy showing mine off) but to donate to the cause. When you're rewarded with a t-shirt or tote bag or something for donating $50 to some charity, you can't expect that your reward is actually worth that $50.
We need to encourage this sort of thing overseas, so these kids can grow up into the next generation of outsourced tech support reps serving the next generation of American pointy-haired bosses who can barely work a can opener.
Just install Linux on it, geez. Do you really have that many legacy apps that can't be run with the current version of wine?
That's all well and good functionality-wise, but try telling a classic car enthusiast who keeps an antique Ford roadster running perfectly that it'd be much easier and cheaper to just get a new Toyota.
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...then stockpile all the U2 iPods you can. They'll quickly become quite rare and collectible once Saint Bono gets wind of this.
Mr. Browne later detailed an extensive, detailed list of methods for successfully polishing a turd.
Thanks! It's always a pleasure to be corrected by someone who knows what they're talking about.
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For heaven's sake, think of the children!!!
For heaven's sake, don't think of the identical chips in your own phone!!!
These days we do have a few major players like Hideo Kojima or Shigeru Miyamoto, but they are no longer able to be the jack-of-all-trades their predecessors were. They are like film producers or directors, with the talent to see a creative vision through and help an entire team realize it.
Also, when seeking a replacement PS2, at many chain stores nowadays you can sacrifice a couple of trade-in items to knock the price of a new one down to the same price as a used one, and enjoy a fresh warranty and that new-console smell.
I wonder if this is just another impress-the-voters measure passed to make the old white men in suits look good, which will get quietly struck down as unconstitutional when it ever actually comes into play in court.
Has it really been 13 years? Cripes, I'm getting old. Give it a few more years' worth of degenerative amnesia and I'll be looking for this strip on budget desk calendars in the mall bookstore.
Many thanks and best wishes, David Farley. Can't wait to see what you do next!
And it's so much more prestigious than anything published by Yeale.
Who wants to start listing prior art? I don't know offhand, what sort of messaging capabilities existed in XBand, The Sierra Network, AOL, countless BBSes and BBS doors, MUDs, the old UNIX mainframe games, etc.?
Haven't you heard? Linux bought all of those guys. Also Vespa scooters and Iceberg lettuce.
Is stuff like this news? If so, I could go blog about how Disney could buy McDonalds, or how Toyota plans on purchasing Vivid Video.
Even if this were a serious issue, which it isn't, I somehow don't see Japan's pride and joy Nintendo selling to an American company for anything, even if it is Apple.
Thanks to MySpace, the NSA now knows that there are far more 18-year-old bisexual cheerleaders named Tiffany out there than anyone ever realized, there is a very good reason so many musicians never get record deals, and everyone in the entire world is in your extended social network (especially that creepy mutant Tom.)
Remind me to buy all the stock I can in non-US web hosts. I have a feeling that market's about to explode.
This is just what I've been hoping for! Thank you, Intel, for addressing my needs as a consumer and forcing AMD to drop the prices on those Athlon 64s I love so very very much.
The measure is primarily backed by a Mr. Jonah and a Mr. Ahab, two men who claim lots of experience with Wales.
Yes indeed, we won't even be able to afford to support our own domestic criminals anymore. We'll have all the con artists outsourced by 2009.
The point isn't to just get the laptop (although I'm going to enjoy showing mine off) but to donate to the cause. When you're rewarded with a t-shirt or tote bag or something for donating $50 to some charity, you can't expect that your reward is actually worth that $50.
Here's the page where you can pledge to buy one for triple the price, donating the other two.
We need to encourage this sort of thing overseas, so these kids can grow up into the next generation of outsourced tech support reps serving the next generation of American pointy-haired bosses who can barely work a can opener.
Next on Slashdot.. does that mugger demanding your wallet at knifepoint really have your best interests at heart? Stay tuned.
Just install Linux on it, geez. Do you really have that many legacy apps that can't be run with the current version of wine?
That's all well and good functionality-wise, but try telling a classic car enthusiast who keeps an antique Ford roadster running perfectly that it'd be much easier and cheaper to just get a new Toyota.